there's a lot of unfathomable behavior that gets surfaced by/for/from/to the internet but the fact that anybody whatsoever could give that much shit about the edgy merch sold by a second rate web comic site is beyond me
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I dunno, I find them amusing, mostly because they're like old people in my country, but with some search-and-replace. It's funny to see something that tries to be so aggressively different from senile, paranoid old males, but ironically so similar.
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old people in your country == people with absurd pre-modern magical belief systems?
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that probably has some undesirable subtext, please forgive my accidental *-centrism (or whatever I said wrong)
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I resent these old folks more than any whitey westerner ever could, so no offense taken
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we have lots of old folks with absurd pre-modern magical belief systems in America too. i'm sincerely curious how much overlap these groups have. i bet it's a lot.
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I sort of object to the term "pre-modern" because, well, these things are kind of historically stable to a ridiculous degree, kind of like schizophrenic delusion "plot arch" is stable
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My shrink ex liked to point out that while the content specifics of delusions in a number of delusional disorders borrow (obviously) from culture the patient is member of, the overall structure ("plot arch" in a sense) of delusions in those disorders is cross-culturally stable
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like, a person from a rural Muslim background would think that the Djinn is meddling with him, and a rural American will blame Satan or CIA mind control chemtrails... but both will contain delusions of influence (often hostile), later delusion of grandeur (being important
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